It's that time of the year. I've been debating what kind of New Year's resolution to pursue. After much back and forth -- between food and exercise -- I've decided on trying to follow a vegan diet for a year. Now there will be two exceptions: butter (for baking purposes because nothing beats butter) and cheese (specifically
parmesan, blue cheese and goat cheese which I like to have in my salads).
We'll see how long this lasts. My year of veggies I had egg and fish as protein back-up. This will be much harder I know, but it will be a good experiment for me.
My other 2013 resolution: making the most of New York City and going beyond my neighborhood. I plan to explore the boroughs more.
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Stop the Presses! Clark Kent Leaves The Daily Planet
Apparently in this latest issue of the Superman Comic, Clark Kent aka Superman, aka long-time reporter for The Daily Planet, will be doing his impression of "Take This Job and Shove It."
“Rather than Clark be this clownish suit that Superman puts on, we’re going to really see Clark come into his own in the next few years as far as being a guy who takes to the Internet and to the airwaves and starts speaking an unvarnished truth,” writer Scott Lobdell told USA Today.
This should be interesting. Or as Perry White would say, "Great Caesar's Ghost!" (I still don't get that phrase.)
“Rather than Clark be this clownish suit that Superman puts on, we’re going to really see Clark come into his own in the next few years as far as being a guy who takes to the Internet and to the airwaves and starts speaking an unvarnished truth,” writer Scott Lobdell told USA Today.
This should be interesting. Or as Perry White would say, "Great Caesar's Ghost!" (I still don't get that phrase.)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Unexpected Packages
It's always fun getting mail. I'm not talking bills, magazines, wedding invitations or the like. I'm talking honest to goodness mail. Letters or even better: package slips. I got a surprise package in the spring and it was the highlight of my spring. I received another in the mail last night. Based on the info on the slip, I thought maybe it was a gift card. I received an via email from GF and Crate and Barrel, but thought this was Crate and Barrel's official way of tell me.
I got to the post office and knew pretty quickly that I was wrong. This is what I picked up.
It was not a gift card. It was like a kid on Christmas Eve. I couldn't wait to get home to see who the package was from.
I figured it was a limited group since I haven't sent out my I've moved email (which I will do...soon). I opened the box, expecting to see the Styrofoam peanuts. Instead I got this:
I imagine people who have gift registries for when they get married or have a kid must get these a lot. Since I've done neither, it was really fun to get! But for a second, I wondered if this was Crate and Barrel's way of giving me a gift car -- the box within a box withing a box.
Luckily for me, it wasn't!
It was this beautiful bowl from my cousin's family. It really is beautiful and I've put it on my bookshelf as art for the time being. That's how much I love the salad bowl!
I got to the post office and knew pretty quickly that I was wrong. This is what I picked up.
I figured it was a limited group since I haven't sent out my I've moved email (which I will do...soon). I opened the box, expecting to see the Styrofoam peanuts. Instead I got this:
Luckily for me, it wasn't!
It was this beautiful bowl from my cousin's family. It really is beautiful and I've put it on my bookshelf as art for the time being. That's how much I love the salad bowl!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Art: Video Games and Music Videos
When I was in Washington, DC, recently, I went to one of my favorite places - the National Portrait Gallery. It shares space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which was having an exhibit on Video Games. I had to go and see it.
According the the exhibit information, video games really reflect art in many different mediums - visual, story telling, musically, etc. So this exhibit explores "the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies."
For me it was a walk down memory lane. I remember my cousins who had Ataris or Intellivision or the first Nintendo. I had the Commodore 64 (and I'm pretty sure it's in the basement of my parent's house somewhere) , but I didn't use it for video games. My Dad got it for me in the hopes that I'd become some computer programmer-type. He had good vision, too bad he was stuck with a non-techie daughter!
What made this exhibit truly enjoyable was that they had stations in the beginning where you could play the games -- from Pac-Man and Super Mario Brothers to Myst and some game I'd never heard of called Flower. I played Pac-Man and managed to get all the dots! Some skills apparently never go away.
Here are some pics from the early years of the video game art.
Created with flickr slideshow.
In another art related, memory lane exhibit, when I was in Cincinnati I visited the Contemporary Art Museum. I went in an hour before it was going to close so the guy at the front desk let me in for free. They had an exhibit titled "Spectacle: The Music Video," which was all about the art of music videos.
It was great. They had a lot of music videos you could watch, such as A-Ha's "Take On Me" to Queens' Bohemian Rhapsody.
I actually spent time at a lot of exhibits watching videos, remembering back to when MTV actually played music videos.
The exhibit explained how it was created, why it was different or cutting edge at the time. It also showed some controversial videos which represented pushing boundaries. And in a more recent art phenomenon, talked about how videos can go viral with other people doing their interpretation of songs or videos, like all the different videos of Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies."
It was pretty awesome!
According the the exhibit information, video games really reflect art in many different mediums - visual, story telling, musically, etc. So this exhibit explores "the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies."
For me it was a walk down memory lane. I remember my cousins who had Ataris or Intellivision or the first Nintendo. I had the Commodore 64 (and I'm pretty sure it's in the basement of my parent's house somewhere) , but I didn't use it for video games. My Dad got it for me in the hopes that I'd become some computer programmer-type. He had good vision, too bad he was stuck with a non-techie daughter!
What made this exhibit truly enjoyable was that they had stations in the beginning where you could play the games -- from Pac-Man and Super Mario Brothers to Myst and some game I'd never heard of called Flower. I played Pac-Man and managed to get all the dots! Some skills apparently never go away.
Here are some pics from the early years of the video game art.
In another art related, memory lane exhibit, when I was in Cincinnati I visited the Contemporary Art Museum. I went in an hour before it was going to close so the guy at the front desk let me in for free. They had an exhibit titled "Spectacle: The Music Video," which was all about the art of music videos.
It was great. They had a lot of music videos you could watch, such as A-Ha's "Take On Me" to Queens' Bohemian Rhapsody.
I actually spent time at a lot of exhibits watching videos, remembering back to when MTV actually played music videos.
The exhibit explained how it was created, why it was different or cutting edge at the time. It also showed some controversial videos which represented pushing boundaries. And in a more recent art phenomenon, talked about how videos can go viral with other people doing their interpretation of songs or videos, like all the different videos of Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies."
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